Saturday, June 16, 2018

Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 (9th edition) and National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (7th edition) was held at IIT Madras on 9th June 2018. Six MPs and one Parliamentary Committee Chairman were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards for their outstanding performance.

Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 (9th edition) and National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (7th edition) was held at IIT Madras on 9th June 2018. Six MPs and one Parliamentary Committee Chairman were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards for their outstanding performance.

Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 (9th edition) and National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (7th edition) was held at IIT Madras on 9th June 2018. Six MPs and one Parliamentary Committee Chairman were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards for their outstanding performance. (link)

Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director, IIT Madras delivered Key Note Address. He announced about the new internship model developed by IIT Madras to support Parliamentarians.

Hon'ble Minister Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal in his special address appealed to all award winning Parliamentarians to utilise the service of IIT Students interns to formulate development plans in their constituencies.

From this
year, one ‘Departmentally Related Standing Committee’ of Parliament too was honoured based on criteria like the reports presented, the number of sittings
held and the number of subjects selected, and others. Dr M
Veerappa Moily, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance received the Awards personally on behalf of the Finance Committee.

The
selection of individual awardees was based on the performance parameters like
initiated debates, private members’ bills, questions raised and the attendance in
the House. The data is
provided by Lok Sabha Secretariat and PRS India.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

9th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 was held at IIT Madras on Saturday, 9th June 2018. Shri M K Narayanan (Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) were the Chief Guests and presented the Awards.

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Hon'ble MOS (Parliametnary Affairs) and the Jury Committee Member was also present.

For the first time, Sansad RAtna Awards Committee introduced an Award to a Parliamentary Committee. Dr. Veerappa Moily, Hon'ble Chairman of Finance Committee received the Award on behalf of the Committee.

Friday, June 8, 2018

9th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 and 7th edition of National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance will be held at IIT Madras on Saturday, 9th June 2018 from 9.30 am. The details of the event is given below. The entire proceedings can be watched live from the link

Monday, June 4, 2018

IANS Story - 4th June 2018Chennai, June 4 (IANS) The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will be awarded the Sansad Ratna Award 2018 for its outstanding performance, a top official said on Monday."We have decided to honour Departmentally Related Standing Committees with Sansad Ratna Award based on the criteria like the reports presented, numbers of sittings and number of subjects selected and others," K. Srinivasan, Founder, Prime Point Foundation, told IANS.The Foundation has been awarding top performing MPs since 2010."In the Indian Parliamentary system, the Standing Committees plays an important role in studying the subjects and guiding the government. Since, we wanted to create awareness about Standing Committees, we have introduced the Award under this category," Srinivasan added.The selection of award winners was done by a Jury Committee consisting of eminent parliamentarians."M. Veerappa Moily, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will receive the award at a function to be held in Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Saturday," Srinivasan said.Former West Bengal Governor M. K. Narayanan and former Chief Election Commissioner of India T. S. Krishnamurthy will present the awards.According to Srinivasan, during the 16th Lok Sabha till date, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance had selected 67 subjects, held 84 sittings and presented 60 reports as per the data culled from the Lok Sabha website.There are 24 Departmentally Related Standing Committees in Parliament. Sixteen are known as Lok Sabha Committees and eight as Rajya Sabha Committees."We could get data only for 16 Lok Sabha Committees. We could not get data for the Rajya Sabha Committees," Srinivasan said.In addition, seven MPs (six from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha) will also be honoured with the Sansad Ratna Award for their individual performances.He said the names of the seven MPs will be announced on Friday.These awards were instituted by Prime Point Foundation in 2010 based on the suggestion given by late President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to celebrate achievers.This is the only award on behalf of the civil society to honour achievers in Parliament, Srinivasan added.--IANS

About this Award

Prime Point Foundation has been honouring the top performing Members of Parliament based on their performance in the House. (Questions raised, debates participated, issues raised, private bills introduced and attendance),

From 2012, the Foundation has named this award as 'Sansad Ratna Award'.